Pedestal for stands



April 21, 1925.

R. L. BETTERLEY PEDESTAL FOR STANDS Filed oct. 9, 1923 WWE/WDR;

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Patented Apr. 21, 1925.

UNITED STATES nov L. BETTERLEY, or sfrv PAUL, lvrrNNEso'rA.

PEDESTAL FOR STANDS.

Application filed October 9, 1928. Serial No. 667,481.

To all whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that I, ROY L. BETTERLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at St; Paul, in the county of Ramsey and State of li'linnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pedestals for Stands, of which the-following is a specication.

My invention relates to music stands, and the object is to provide a music holding stand with certain improvements, one of which is to make a stand that will match a piano, organ or other furniture in the room where it is to be used thus avoiding the objectionable features in stands heretofore constructed namely that they look like an iron structure, Lunsightly and unfit to stand near musical instruments having mahogany, cherry or other finish.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of my improved music stand.

Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2 in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of a portion of Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail rear view of the metal frame 22 and the dog 20-21 pivoted therein in Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged portion of the rack 17 in Fig. 2, showing the side adjacent the dog 20.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged end view of the hollow column 7 of the device.

F 7 is an enlarged modification of the :5.) lower part of Fig. 2, showing detachable legs S, the post 9 being omitted.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, 7 isa tubular preferably square column supported by four legs 8 and having within it a vertically slidable post 9 holding at its upper end a music rack or support consisting of an inclined board 10 having an angular ledge 11 for retaining the music sheets or book upon the board. The post may be rigidly secured. to the board in any suitable manner, but I prefer to give the board a metallic bracket 12 to which is clamped, by a thumb-screw 13, a socket 14 in which is secured by a pin 15 the reduced top portion 16 of the post 9.

The lower portion of the post 9 has its front side partly cut away as at 17 and is formed with pockets 18 making it a ratchet rack 17a the upper terminals of the pockets serving as ratchet teeth 19. Said teeth are arranged to engage a dog 20 formed of the upper end of a beam lever 21 pivoted at 22 in a yoke shaped metal frame 23, secured at 241 in the front side of the column and is provided with a press button 25 which projects through an aperture 26 in the column so as to be exposed to pressure from without. This press button is vnormally held outward by either a leaf spring (not shown) or a' coil spring 27 guided by a stud 28 on the lever and a cavity 29 in the wooden front of the column.

In using the device the book or sheet music are placed on the holding device 10-11, and the latter is pulled upward to the desired height, the ratchet teeth 19 playing the dog` 20; and when it is desired to lower the post 9 the operator takes hold of it with one hand while the other hand presses on the button 25 to disengage the dog.

W'hen the device is to be shipped or stored the board 1011 may be tilted at the screw y 13 into a position parallel with the post 9,

or by means of said screw it may be entirely separated from the post 9 and the latter pushed down as far as possible into the column 7.

The :trame 23 and beam lever 21 may preferably be made of iron and even the post 9 may be of iron and grained in imitation of wood, but I prefer to make it and the column and the board 10-11, and also the legs 8, all of wood, which either by graining or natural wood color resemble, in each stand, some cert-ain kind of fancy wood, so that a person having a piano with mahogany finish, oak finish or cherry finish, may pick out a stand to match the finish of his main instrulnent. This is very desirable both for domestic use and in music schools.

In Fig. G is shown how the column 7 is built of four members all cut from the saine size and form of strip and having a tongue 30 fitting in a groove 31 of the next member in which position the members are secured by glue or other means. 32 is a collar formed of molding about the upper end of the column. The post has an intact bottom portion 33 to prevent its escape upwardly out of the column.

In the modification Fig. 7 each of the four sides comprising column 7 is shown as having a longitudinal groove 34: at its lower end. In the bottom of each groove is secured, as with nails 35, two upwardly and normally inwardly inclined leaf springs 36 each of which has an in\\'erted key-hole slot 37 and the adjacent walls of the column have like registering slots 38 through which headed pins 39 secured in each leg 8 are inserted in the lower and widest ends of said slots 37-38 until the legs are flush with the outer walls of the column. Then the column is pushed down or the legs up until the heads of pins 39 are forced upwardly in the slots and the springy tendency of leaves 36 frictionally hold the legs in place. To remove the legs this operation is merely reversed.

lVhat I claim is:

In a music stand the combination with suitable spread legs of a tubular column held by said legs, a post slidable within said column and adapted to be held at any desired elevation, means for removably securing said legs to the column adjacent its lower end, said means comprising a plurality of vertically arranged spring leaves, secured to the inner walls of the column, each spring secured with its lower end to the column and its upper end normally inclined inwardly toward the center of the column, an inverted key-hole shaped slot in said inclined part of the spring, said column having a horizontally registering slot, a headed pin in each leg adapted to be inserted in said slot and in the widest part of the slot in the spring;` and to frictionally engage said slotted part and spring` it outwardly when said column is moved downwardly upon the pin, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature.

ROY L. BETTERLEY. 

